An Ethnography Study Of Early Romantic Relationship And Early Marriage Phenomenon Among Junior School Students Of Bunu Yao

In the changing age with the development of society,human beings meant to postpone their ages of first-love and even marriage.To the contrary,in recent years,there is an aggravation for early romantic relationship and early marriage among people in China's rural area especially in ethnic regions.The Bunu Yao is a subline of the Yao nationality,which inhabits in northwestern mountainous regions of Guangxi(mainly in Hechi).For a long time,the Bunu Yao lives in a tough natural environment and closed social environment,which leads to relatively unique social structure,life style and cultural custom.In history,the Bunu Yao people prevail take early romantic relationship and early marriage.Since the China's reform and opening-up policy,particularly entered the new century,the isolated circumstance of the Bunu Yao has been gradually broken.It comes into a rapidly changing and transformative period as most of other ethnic minorities and regions do.However,there are merely little changes of the early romantic relationship and early marriage custom in the Bunu Yao Community.In spite of the country's compulsory education policy has been comprehensively popularized and has intended to extend to senior high school's level,a large scale of the Bunu Yao teenagers still persist their early romantic relationship and marriage tradition.This will undoubtedly bring negative effects to their completeness of the compulsory education,their further study and their development space's expanded.This stud uses the research method of ethnography to describe and interpret the history background and reality tendency by doing field research of the Bunu Yao junior school students' early romantic relationship and marriage phenomenon.The study intends to analyze the influencing factorsand mechanism of action in order to reveal how this tradition restricts and limits the students' academic achievements and quality of life.The findings will provide strategies and implement approaches for improving rural education of the Bunu Yao's habitation.The study takes the participant observation of the Bunu Yao's rural junior schools,and takes deep interviews with students,teachers,education administration,parents and local people in the Bunu Yao's community,grasps the ethnic minority students' routine life scenes,experiences and observes how junior school students' romantic relationship and marriage behavior influence their study and physical and mental development.It also explores the influencing manifestations and mechanism of action of the love and marriage customs of the ethnic group's,modern culture and school education to the Bunu Yao's junior school students' individual development.It gives attentions to the students' romantic relationship status,meanwhile lays stress on the students' individual behaviors and changes of their mental states and academic achievements.The study uses both qualitative elaboration and quantitative evidences to describe a dynamic pattern of the Bunu Yao students' romantic relationships and marriage behavior in order to point out how it impacts their education achievements and quality of life.Based on a depth description by using cultural anthropology method analysis,the study points out there are three reasons lead to the result that the Bunu Yao junior school students' early romantic relationship and early marriage phenomenon.Firstly,it is caused by the Bunu Yao's cultural field and the function of the ethnic minority group's habitus.Secondly,the changing society brings modern culture shocks to the region.Last but not least,the difficulties and weaknesses of rural school education.Meanwhile,from the theoretical perspective of sociology,it further explains the “society inheritance and replacement” demand of the ethnic group which means in developing region the old generation hope the youths can take over their social responsibility earlier including build their own young families;the reality force of poverty;and the low status of the ethnic group with weak discourse right are the social basis and deeper motivations for the Bunu Yao junior school students' early romantic relationship and early marriage behavior.Facing the popular atmosphere of the Bunu Yao junior school students' early romantic relationship and early marriage behavior,we will have to put the school education conditions into the economic and cultural background of the ethnic local community to give specific feedbacks after taking anthropological participant observation and ethnographic description,scanning from a wider social cultural situation to make a relatively objective understanding.Firstly,we should start with improving the essential issues which is the long-term poverty of the local the Bunu Yao people by putting variant and prior policies to the regions giving support to education development.Secondly,to rebuild the compatibility and interactions of schools and rural culture,bring fresh energy to the Bunu Yao's community culture development to coordinate the “congruent culture”,which includes institutional culture and spiritual culture,and material progress.Thirdly,the rural schools that are inlaid in the Bunu Yao's social field should be turned into centers of rural culture.To implement the strategy of neutral adaptation of school education in rural areas will help to right the education mindset and goals,to make up the lost courses and teaching activities,to make further efforts of improving and strengthening school administration.Properly abandon some irrelevant affairs that badly disturb and effect teaching and learning.All solutions above concurrently impact to the region and students.They will better solve the contradictions of students' romantic relationship and study,better promote students' academic achievements and life quality,consequently comprehensively promote the overall quality of ethnic minorities and ultimately accelerate the steps of China's ethnic minority regions' modernization contribution.